Michael Balarama wrote:
> "Rudy Canoza" > wrote in message
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>>Michael Balarama wrote:
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>>>"Rudy Canoza" > wrote in message
thlink.net...
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>>>>"Evidence suggests remedies offer placebo effect, but
>>>>no real benefits"
>>>>
>>>>Reuters
>>>>
>>>>LONDON - The world may be beating a path to the doors
>>>>of homeopathic practitioners as an alternative to
>>>>conventional medicines, but according to a new study
>>>>they may just as well be taking nothing.
>>>>
>>>>The study, published in Friday's edition of the
>>>>respected Lancet medical journal, is likely to anger
>>>>the growing numbers of devoted practitioners of and
>>>>adherents to alternative therapies that include homeopathy.
>>>>
>>>>more at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9078909/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Just like "reflexology", better known as foot massage.
>>>> These therapies are quackery. They have appeal for
>>>>uneducated, credulous dummies.
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>>>
>>>This study is not true
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>>You're a moron, Mikie. The study is *legitimate*
>>(studies aren't "true", you dope), and its conclusion
>>is probably correct.
>>
>>You can't question its methodology, Mikie, because you
>>don't know a thing about science. You like
>>"homeopathy" for some non-scientific reason, and now
>>you feel that your non-scientific beliefs are being
>>attacked by the study's conclusion.
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>
> Whatever whatever-Homeopathic medicine worked-

Placebo effect.

> traditional medicine did not..I was the happy patient..
> it also cost a fraction of the cost of Trad medicine..

Hard to justify paying for sugar pills.